palisade

In the city of New Amsterdam, they grew crops and constructed important sites, including the palisade in 1653 that gave today’s Wall Street its name.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

At Amnya, her team also noted a possible sign of social stratification, another development often linked to agriculture: a cluster of houses that sat, undefended, outside the palisade.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 29, 2023

The numerous small bumps in the palisade parenchyma cells are chloroplasts.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

Eight stories tall, Solaris features a sleek palisade of broad teak-covered decks suitable for hosting a horde of well-heeled partygoers.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2022

No one wants to tell President Wingfield that he was wrong and Captain Smith was right about building a palisade, I think.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

With room inside for dozens of people and dwellings sunk almost 2 meters deep for warmth in Siberian winters, the fortresses were ringed by earthen walls several meters high and topped with wooden palisades.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 29, 2023

The noodle house may be hard to find because it’s literally overshadowed by the palisades of the Great Wall Shopping Mall nearby.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2022

Survivors from his expedition described large towns of thatched houses, surrounded by strong palisades and watchtowers.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

On the palisades in front of the church hang red banners proclaiming the fifth commandment of the Catholic catechism: Huwag kang papatay, it reads.

From Time ● Jan. 16, 2017

Along the shore and up on the palisades, warm yellow light poured from the windows of homes and shell houses.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Last March, Historic St. Mary’s City announced that the outlines of the palisaded fort, erected by White settlers in 1634, had finally been discovered.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2022

MacFarlane told him that the country was so wild that Fort Eskimo was palisaded, flanked with bastions, and loop-holed for rifle-fire, owing to the desperate character of the surrounding and hostile tribes.

From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus W. Greely

It abutts on a palisaded earthwork that can be easily taken.

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Eug?ne Sue

This was a work of greater magnitude than that of the first adventurers, inclosing a space one hundred feet square, strongly palisaded with pickets ten and a half feet high.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake

Even churches were palisaded in, as for example, the first church on the Eastern shore.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman

Without a word Sir Reginald complied, clambering first upon his companion’s back and thence noiselessly to the top of the palisading.

From The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure by Gordon Browne

From the prisoners he had learned all details as to the fort, and found that while almost impregnable from the river face, the flank of the fort was defended chiefly by a strong palisading.

From With Cochrane the Dauntless by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

But there was nothing, to our knowledge, which was unusual about that palisading, except, perhaps, its triangular shape.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Henry Chandlee Forman

But whatever it meant, it stopped the elephant from crashing through a piece of palisading, and made it kneel again with its head over a flowerbed, and begin picking all the blossoms within its reach.

From Glyn Severn's Schooldays by Charles Pears

Half-closed redoubt for infantry—Platforms for machine-guns at angles—Wrought-iron palisading at bottom of ditch.

From Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England by William Le Queux